Google has acquired Synergyse, a Toronto-based interactive training service for Google Apps for Work that was launched by a group of former Google employees in 2013. As part of this acquisition, Google will make Synergyse Training for Google Apps available for free to all Google Apps customers. The company did not disclose the financial terms…

WhatsApp, Facebookâ€™s messaging service that recently rolled out end-to-end encryption to its users, will be blocked in Brazil for 72 hours. A judge from the small Brazilian state of Sergipe ordered telecom providers in the country to block WhatsApp in a dispute over access to encrypted data. Judge Marcel Montalvao has ordered WhatsApp to turn…